I sometimes think God is a s--t — and he wouldn't be worth it otherwise. He's much more interesting when he's a s--t. - Madeleine L'Engle

It has often struck me with awe that some of the most deeply religious people I know have been, on the surface, atheists.

The rational intellect doesn't have a great deal to do with love, and it doesn't have a great deal to do with art. I am often, in my writing, great leaps ahead of where I am in my thinking, and my thinking has to work its way slowly up to what the "superconscious" has already shown me in a story or poem.

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.